Emergency Planning Committee (EPC)

An emergency planning committee (EPC) shall be formed for each facility by the person or persons responsible for the facility, its occupants and visitors. Depending on the nature of the particular facility (ies), the EPC may be formed either for an individual facility or group of facilities. The EPC shall be appropriate for the particular facility (ies).

Those responsible for a facility or its occupants shall ensure that the EPC has adequate resources to enable the development and implementation of the emergency plan.

Membership

The EPC shall consist of not less than two people who shall be representative of the stakeholders in a facility one of which shall be management. The representative from management might include the following:

Director

Building custodian

Chief fire warden or

ANU fire safety officer

At least one member of the EPC shall be a competent person (a person who has acquired through training, education, qualification, experience or a combination of these, the knowledge and skill enabling him/ her to correctly perform the required task).

Responsibilities

The EPC shall be responsible for development, implementation and maintenance of the emergency plan, emergency response procedure and related training in collaboration with building custodians, occupiers and ANU Fire Safety Officer.

The duties of the EPC shall be read in conjunction with the ANU Emergency Response procedure.